University of Bucharest

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Bucharest*

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest

Edited by Alexandru Nicolae & Adina Dragomirescu

Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] 2021. | edited volume

L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance

Edited by Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco & Veronica Tomescu

Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] 2021. | edited volume

Alecu, Bianca Maria 2026 Review of Understanding the Language of Virtual Interaction. Communities, Knowledge, and Authority by Antonio Reyes & Andrew S. Ross (2025)

Language and Dialogue | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review

Jupowicz-Ginalska, Anna, Bianca Harms, Anna Samelova, Martyna Dudziak-Kisio, Päivi Maijanen, Anca Anton, Andreas Will, Emilia Zakrzewska, Antonia Matei & Gheorghe Anghel 2026 Modification of media’s visual identity as a response to the war in Ukraine: An exploratory study

Keywords: media visual identity | visual discourse | visual communication strategies | logo modification | corporate branding | war in Ukraine | symbolic solidarity | media CSR

In: Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 355] pp. 278–316

Mite-Colceriu, Diana 2025 Review of Le Banquet des Belles Lettres by Laurent Angard, Sébastien Baudoin & David Michon (2025)

Revue Romane 61:1 pp. 151–153 | book review

Samarineanu, Diana 2026 Des hommes et des chats: Représentations animalières de l’humain dans la Suite française d’Irène Némirovsky

Reinardus 37 pp. 194–208 | article

Pârlea, Vanezia 2026 Du chat comique au chat paradisiaque dans les Mémoires du chevalier d’Arvieux: Une perspective interculturelle

Reinardus 37 pp. 181–193 | article

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2025 Having a licence for offensive humour in stand-up comedy?: Exploring the case of Romanian comedians performing in the United Kingdom

Keywords: self-deprecation | other-deprecation | rebellious humour | stand-up comedy | marginal comedians

Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 p. 93 | article

Girbea, Catalina 2026 Introduction: Le Chat, cet autre de chez nous1

Reinardus 37 pp. 134–135 | introduction

Girbea, Catalina 2026 Les chats écuyers dans le manuscrit fr. 1437 de la BnF

Reinardus 37 pp. 164–180 | article

Mite-Colceriu, Diana 2024 Review of Mythopoétiques dantesques — une étude intermédiale sur la France, l’Espagne et l’Italie (1766–1897) by Claudia Jacobi (2021)

Revue Romane 59:2 pp. 346–349 | book review

Avram, Larisa, Alexandru Mardale & Elena Soare 2024 On the production of subject and object relative clauses by child speakers of heritage Romanian in France

Keywords: child heritage Romanian | subject relatives | direct object relatives | schooling effect | input

In: Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] pp. 168–196

Vasilescu, Andra 2023  Yes (Rom. Da). Usages and functions in L2 proficiency examinations: A view from Romanian

Keywords: intercultural communication | Mixed Game Model | socio-cognitive approach | competence-in-performance | universal principles of human communication | languaculture

Language and Dialogue 13:3 pp. 427–452 | article

Cassany-Bates, Jordi 2023 Les consonants que separen el catalanovalencià de l’occità

Keywords:

In: Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideology, Feliu, Francesc (ed.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 35] pp. 219–235

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2023 Ritual and modern “politeness” in the Romanian Principalities during the Phanariot period

Keywords: historical pragmatics | intercultural adoption | politeness | ritual practice | Romanian Principalities | self-presentation

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 pp. 124–142 | article

Beciu, Camelia & Mirela Lazăr 2022 “We” in the EU: (De) legitimizing power relations and status: The case of the 2019 European elections in Romania

Keywords: European elections | political discourse | legitimization | claims-making | representations | positioning | dispositive | field of power

Journal of Language and Politics 21:2 pp. 300–319 | article

Bottez, Alina 2022 The circumcised dog and the subtle whore: Race and gender in the musical adaptations of Shakespeare’s Othello

Keywords: music | adaptation | remediation | transmediation | libretto | race | gender | dualism | imagology | rhetoric

In: Othello in European Culture, Bandín, Elena, Francesca Rayner & Laura Campillo Arnaiz (eds.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 3] pp. 205–224

Bleotu, Adina Camelia 2022 The properties of the ‘(a) lua și X’ (‘take and X’) construction in Romanian: Evidence in favor of a more fine-grained distinction among pseudocoordinative structures

Keywords: classification | pseudocoordination | (pseudo)coordination tests

In: Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions, Giusti, Giuliana, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro & Daniel Ross (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 274] pp. 149–166

Colceriu, Diana Mite 2021 Review of « Grandissima e smisurata paura ». Una proposta di lettura di novelle del Cinquecento by Corina Anton (2021)

Revue Romane 57:2 pp. 367–369 | book review

Giurgea, Ion & Maria Aurelia Cotfas 2021 Agent control in passives in Romanian

In: Non-canonical control in a cross-linguistic perspective, Mucha, Anne, Jutta M. Hartmann & Beata Trawiński (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 270] p. 83 | open access

Dobrescu, Caius 2021 

Language and Dialogue 11:2 pp. 340–343 | book review

Stoica, Gabriela 2021 Conceptualizing shame in Old Romanian: A cultural and historical-semantic analysis

Keywords: shame | conceptualization of emotions | componential grid | semantic feature | cultural dimensions | cultural evaluation | Old Romanian

In: Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Denisa Latić & Anna Finzel (eds.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 14] p. 79

Bîlbîie, Gabriela & Israel de la Fuente 2021 An experimental approach to parallelism in ellipsis: The case of pro-drop in Romance gapping

Keywords: gapping | parallelism | pro-drop | constructional approach | Romance | Romanian | Spanish | acceptability judgments

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru & Adina Dragomirescu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] pp. 49–72

Tigău, Alina & Klaus von Heusinger 2021 Dative clitics in Romanian ditransitives

Keywords: ditransitives | differential object marking | clitic doubling

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru & Adina Dragomirescu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] pp. 335–356

Dragomirescu, Adina & Alexandru Nicolae 2021 Introduction

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru & Adina Dragomirescu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] pp. 1–8

Cornilescu, Alexandra & Alina Tigău 2021 Is there a dative alternation in Romanian?: Remarks on the cross-categorial variation of datives in ditransitive constructions

Keywords: dative alternation | inflectional dative | prepositional dative | re-analysis

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru & Adina Dragomirescu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] p. 91

Vasilescu, Andra 2021 Syntactic vs pragmatic passive: Evidence from Romanian

Keywords: Romanian | se-passive/be-passive | syntactic passive/pragmatic passive

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru & Adina Dragomirescu (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] pp. 357–372

Bleotu, Adina Camelia 2021 Deriving scalar implicatures with quantifiers by Romanian children

Keywords: scalar implicatures | existential quantifiers | L1 Romanian

In: L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco & Veronica Tomescu (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] pp. 331–354

Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco & Veronica Tomescu 2021 Introduction

In: L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco & Veronica Tomescu (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] pp. 1–10

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2020 Review of The Dynamics of Interactional Humor. Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters edited by Villy Tsakona & Jan Chovanec (2018)

Language and Dialogue 10:2 pp. 290–295 | book review

Avram, Larisa & Veronica Tomescu 2020 Differential Object Marking in simultaneous Hungarian-Romanian bilinguals

Keywords: Romanian | Hungarian | simultaneous bilingual children | selective vulnerability | Differential Object Marking

In: The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking, Mardale, Alexandru & Silvina Montrul (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 26] p. 77

Bîlbîie, Gabriela 2020 A constraint-based approach to linguistic interfaces

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 pp. 1–22 | introduction

Avram, Andrei A. 2020 Frank van Splunder. 2020. Language is Politics. Exploring an ecological approach to language

Language and Dialogue 10:3 pp. 447–451 | book review

Rizea, Monica-Mihaela & Manfred Sailer 2020 A constraint-based modeling of negative polarity items in result clause constructions in Romanian

Keywords: Lexical Resource Semantics | negative polarity item | projective meaning | result clause semantics | Romanian

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 pp. 129–168 | article

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2018 A perspective on “impoliteness” in early modern Romanian court and diplomatic interactions

Keywords: emotional effects | evaluation | impoliteness | metalinguistic comments

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:1 p. 92 | article

Panaitescu, Mara 2018 Dependent numerals and dependent existentials in Romanian

Keywords: dependent indefinites | distributive operator | partition

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Repetti, Lori & Francisco Ordóñez (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 14] pp. 215–229

Mîrzea Vasile, Carmen & Blanca Croitor 2017 Properties of Romanian adverbs and adjectives from a categorial status perspective

In: Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance, Hummel, Martin & Salvador Valera (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 242] pp. 227–253 | open access

Levonian, Raluca-Mihaela 2017 What does ‘emergency’ mean?: Corrections in Romanian and Italian political interviews

Keywords: political interviews | political communication | correction | confrontation | Romanian | Italian | media

Language and Dialogue 7:2 pp. 213–235 | article

Avram, Andrei A. 2016 Review of Talk of St Kitts and Nevis by Philip Baker & Lee Pederson (2013)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:2 pp. 440–444 | book review

Amel, Rodica 2017  Place and Person(a)

Keywords: Corporeality | Person vs. Persona | (the) Self | Subjectivity | Consciousness | Belief | Metaphysical Transubstantiation

Pragmatics & Cognition 23:3 pp. 404–415 | article

Avram, Andrei A. 2016 Diagnostic features of English-lexifier Creoles: Evidence from Antiguan

Keywords: English-lexifier Creoles | diagnostic features | origin | classification | Caribbean | Atlantic | world-wide

English World-Wide 37:2 pp. 168–196 | article

Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu, Liliana 2016 Keep silent or keep talking!: Remarks on silence in Romanian culture

Keywords: intentional/ unintentional silences | thematic silences | requested silences. | silence | conversational silences

Language and Dialogue 6:3 pp. 447–463 | article

Stefanescu, Ariadna 2015 Analysing the rhetoric use of the epistemic marker Eu cred că (I think) in Romanian parliamentary discourse

In: Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue, Săftoiu, Răzvan, Maria-Ionela Neagu & Stanca Măda (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 26] pp. 101–142

Cornilescu, Alexandra 2015 On the syntax of datives in unaccusative configurations

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer & Petra Sleeman (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 8] pp. 119–158

Levonian, Raluca Mihaela 2015 Friends and foes: The construction of national and supra-national identities in contemporary Romanian public discourse

Language and Dialogue 5:3 pp. 408–429 | article

Stefanescu, Ariadna 2014 Review of Decoding Political Discourse: Conceptual Metaphors and Argumentation by Ionela Neagu (2013)

Language and Dialogue 4:3 pp. 487–493 | book review

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2014 Evidential and epistemic strategies in Romanian parliamentary debates

Keywords: evidentiality | epistemic | interaction | strategy | context dependency.

Language and Dialogue 4:1 pp. 132–148 | article

Ionescu-Ruxandoiu, Liliana 2014 Strategic uses of certainty and uncertainty in a political debate

Keywords: explicit / implicit evidentials | ethos | epistemic asymmetry. | modals | identity

Language and Dialogue 4:1 pp. 149–162 | article

Ruxandoiu, Liliana 2012 Perspectivation in the Romanian parliamentary discourse

In: Dialogue in Politics, Berlin, Lawrence N. & Anita Fetzer (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 18] pp. 151–166

Heeren, Willemijn, Andrei A. Avram, Anna Cardinaletti, Martine Coene & Francesca Volpato 2012 Can speech pitch perception be measured language-independently?

Keywords: cue trading | prominence marking | pitch perception

Linguistics in the Netherlands 29:1 pp. 55–67 | article | open access

Cornilescu, Alexandra & Alexandru Nicolae 2011 On the syntax of Romanian definite phrases: Changes in the patterns of definiteness checking

In: The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change, Sleeman, Petra & Harry Perridon (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 171] pp. 193–222

Cornilescu, Alexandra & Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin 2008 10. Clitic doubling, complex heads and interarboreal operations

In: Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages, Kallulli, Dalina & Liliane Tasmowski (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 130] pp. 289–319

Avram, Larisa & Martine Coene 2008 12. Romanian possessive clitics revisited

In: Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages, Kallulli, Dalina & Liliane Tasmowski (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 130] pp. 361–387

Anghelescu, Mircea 2008 Romantic Travel Narratives

In: Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders, Sondrup, Steven P., Virgil Nemoianu & Gerald Gillespie (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] pp. 165–180

Spiridon, Monica 2008 The Romantic Pamphlet: Stylistic and Thematic Impurity of a Double-Edged Genre

In: Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders, Sondrup, Steven P., Virgil Nemoianu & Gerald Gillespie (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] pp. 317–331

Avram, Andrei A. 2004 Atlantic, Pacific or world-wide?: Issues in assessing the status of creole features

English World-Wide 25:1 p. 81 | article

Ghita, Andreea C. 2008 Negotiation of irony in dialogue

In: Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, Weigand, Edda & Marcelo Dascal (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 214] pp. 139–148

Motapanyane, Virginia & Larisa Avram 2011 The Syntax of putea and its Mixed Typology

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 14:1 pp. 149–165 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.